Tobacco for roll-your-own cigarettes saw a disproportionate leap, from $1.10 to $24.78 per pound. Some predicted the tax would kill the roll-your-own industry, which had offered a cheaper alternative to packaged cigarettes. But....

What happens when the state decides to hold a last-minute meeting on a controversial topic like medical marijuana, then tries to hold it via a conference call using technology that apparently no one knows how to work? Comic genius.

High-altitude partying is a deeply carved tradition in ski country, where alcohol in the open and illicit drugs in the shadows have been intertwined for years. Even before last week’s town vote here that decriminalized the possession of small amounts

But one trial participant says he does know. He left Daytop after receiving all three shots and immediately started injecting megahits of cocaine with a lady friend over the course of a weekend—to no avail. This report is, of course, what scientists

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online. The agency sent letters this week to more than a dozen Web-based companies saying they are violatin

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) was at the home of his partner when police arrested and charged him with marijuana cultivation, possession and paraphernalia. Charges were dropped after he admitted to possession and paid a fine.

The "Truth in Trials Act," "enables individuals facing federal prosecution for marijuana-related offenses to provide evidence during trial that the activities they were engaged in were performed in compliance with their state’s duly-enacted medical m

Nick Sand served hard time for running a productive underground LSD operation - and he has no regrets. Nick your a hero in my book! [ED]
Nick Sand was one of the foremost LSD scientist in the world and was the creator of the famous "Orange Sunshine

Local and federal law enforcement officers said they have broken up a drug transportation ring that was bringing 60,000 pounds of marijuana into Arizona one backpack at a time. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said the operation came to light with a r

Envision detectives arresting more child predators as they abandon the time spent arresting someone selling pot to an adult. All this becomes possible, when America abandons the prohibition approach to marijuana.”

He wasn't expecting the phone call one August day when a voice said the police were outside and he needed to open up or they would bust down the door. His first thought, that it was a joke, turned to terror when he opened the door.
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The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors, who will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest

So will it spill further into Texas? Absolutely, says the drug smuggler. "It will in the future. It will escalate, escalate and continue to escalate," he said. What does he think about us reporting from Juarez? "You might as well write your last will

A group of civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders were arrested Tuesday morning while digging up the lawn to plant industrial hemp seeds at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
David Bronner, the president of Dr.

You want to dig a garden, you need a shovel. You want to dig a guerrilla garden of illegal hemp on the front lawn of Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters and get arrested for the cameras, you need a symbol.

There are limits to being a crime victim, as a woman who called Saginaw County sheriff's deputies to report the theft of marijuana found out. Detective Sgt. Randy F. Pfau said the 54-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday after reporting two men ha

The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars.
Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy
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A House intelligence committee meeting was abruptly terminated when Justice Department officials refused to be sworn in before briefing the lawmakers. They were to brief the committee on the 2001 shootdown of a plane over Peru that was carrying Ameri